I don't even *like* Twilight, and this annoys me

[asimplechord]

Laurell K. Hamilton, author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter books, has her own thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon. “Stephenie Meyer has come and she’s taken the genre that I sort of pioneered.[...]"

Um. Seriously? She pioneered? Because Le Fanu didn't create Carmilla, a seductive creature of the night, back in the mid-19th century? Obviously Stoker's Dracula was not an influence either. Or Coleridge's Geraldine, who was likely the basis for Carmilla.

And let's not acknowledge Stephen King's Salem's Lot or Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.

Let's not point out that Hamilton's grasp of plot, grammar, syntax, and logic are utterly nonexistent.

Uh-huh. Obviously, she created the vampire/supernatural creature genre of literature. OBVSLY.

How can she see around her monstrously huge ego?

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[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, LKH definitely pioneered THAT genre.

How does she get published? Does she have a no-edit clause? I stopped reading her books years ago, but even then she'd degenerated to poorly written, run-on, unedited sentences. Seriously, my sister and I went through and counted entire paragraphs that were composed of single sentences. And plot went out the door to make way for Anita's magical vagina. Which might be okay if you can get past the idea of fucking that many people and still being able to get up and function the next morning. Porn's awesome - but I prefer my porn to be well-written.

[ariadne1.livejournal.com]

Porn should be well-written and hot. Hers is just boring.

The series was so promising at first - it tanked after Blue Moon (I think that was when... don't recall)...

Anyway, she can't see around her huge ego. Not even as far as her computer screen. Honestly. *shudders*

Thanks for posting the link!

[asimplechord.livejournal.com]

Exactly, re: the early books in the series: there was an over-arching plot, a female character with some ethical guidelines, supernatural beasties! But then... I don't know what happened.

Someone I know compared her writing to unintentionally bad!fic, which I think was a valid comparison, but people still pay for her books. I do not understand this at all.

I've heard rumor that LKH has parted ways with her Minion, and that Minion is now writing her own novel. One can only hope that Minion finds a better editor than she herself was.